Jonathan Lipson holds the Harold E. Kohn Chair and is a Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law. He teaches Contracts, Bankruptcy, Corporations, Commercial Law, Lawyering for Entrepreneurship, International Business Transactions, and a variety of other business law courses. In addition to Temple, he has taught at the law schools of the University of Wisconsin (where he held the Foley & Lardner Chair), the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Baltimore.
His research focuses on corporate governance, restructuring, and contracting practices. He has published in many of the nation’s top law reviews, including those of the UCLA, Boston University, Notre Dame, and Southern California law schools. His work is frequently cited, including by the United States Supreme Court and U.S. Courts of Appeals, as well as leading business courts such as the Delaware Supreme Court, the Delaware Chancery Court and the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. He is also a coauthor (with Macaulay et al.) of Contracts Law in Action, the nation’s leading casebook that takes a “law in action” approach to contract law.
An occasional empiricist, Professor Lipson has published two articles on the use of “examiners” in chapter 11 bankruptcies, the second of which won the Editors’ Prize as the best paper published in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal in 2016. His study of employment at the Trump Casinos in connection with their bankruptcies received widespread attention, and was noted in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Professor Lipson is a member of the American Law Institute, a Regent of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, and is active with the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association where, from 2011 to 2017, he was Section Content Officer. He is now a member of the Section Council and the Corporate Laws Committee. He has also served as an expert in complex corporate reorganizations, including that of Enron Corp. His shorter works have appeared on, among others, The Huffington Post, Concurring Opinions, and Credit Slips. He also writes op-eds for the National Law Journal and USAToday.
Prior to teaching, Professor Lipson was a lawyer. From 1995-1999, he practiced corporate and commercial law in Boston, with the firm of Hill & Barlow. From 1992 to 1995, he practiced bankruptcy and commercial law in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis. From 1990-1992, he practiced with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. While in practice, he was involved in several large and complex chapter 11 cases, including those of Healthco, Thinking Machines Corporation, and CIS Corporation.
He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, B.A., with honors (1986) & J.D. (1990), where he was a note editor of the Wisconsin Law Review.
Professor Andrea Monroe teaches Taxation, Taxation II, Taxation of Partnerships and S Corporations, and Business Basics for Lawyers. She earned her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and her LL.M. in Taxation from New York University. Prof. Monroe previously taught at Northwestern University School of Law as a visiting assistant professor. Professor Monroe’s current research focuses on partnership taxation.
Following law school, Professor Monroe worked at the law firms of Winston & Strawn in Chicago and New York and Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee, where her practice included leveraged leasing, alternative energy transactions and other forms of tax-advantaged financing.
Jonathan M. Broder (LAW ’83) is the retired Vice President of Corporate Development and General Counsel for Conrail. He managed Conrail’s legal and corporate affairs, as well as its real estate and business development functions.
He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at Temple, and teaches the Role of In-House Counsel and Administrative Law.
Born in New York City, Mr. Broder received a BA from Oberlin College and a JD from Temple in 1983. After working in private practice as a litigator for several years, he joined Conrail’s law department in 1988, specializing in economic regulatory litigation, antitrust compliance, and general commercial litigation. During the 1990’s, Mr. Broder worked extensively on numerous strategic initiatives, including the development of the Conrail Express shortline program, participation in Conrail’s efforts to acquire the eastern half of the Southern Pacific Railroad during the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger. Mr. Broder was part of the core team that worked on the Conrail-CSX-Norfolk-Southern transaction where he coordinated much of the regulatory and commercial aspects of the deal, and led several implementation teams for the merger. He also spent over 20 years working to preserve the Highline in New York City. Today, the Highline Park is one of the most popular attractions in New York.
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